And even then, there should be an approval workflow to at least have one more set of eyes review the change before it’s implemented.
scytale
joined 2 years ago
Dude can be an amazing piano player.
there’s always the potential for a very near future breaches or compromise
That is a goalpost that will never stop moving. There is always a potential threat and you can never reduce your risk to zero. Right now, encrypting the data yourself before uploading it is your best option outside of encrypting AND hosting the data yourself. You’re basically anticipating that the well-known secure encryption algorithms will eventually be broken, which is not impossible no doubt, but at the moment not likely. You also have to step back and figure out your threat model, in order to come up with an adequate solution.
I’m not familiar with the lore. Who is the villain?
If you don’t mind having to take an extra step to access them and probably not having the convenience of online sharing, you can encrypt your photos/videos before uploading them to online cloud storage.
I believe most banks will have residency requirements to allow you to open an account. Not permanent residency per se, but proof that you’re at least legally residing in the country at the time of opening an account. But as the other commenter said, Canada might have options since it shares lots of stuff with the US. Of course the rich are always exempt from the rules, and I’m just guessing here, but maybe they do it via corporations/businesses; so maybe you can set up an LLC or something.
It depends. What were you expecting and what was your takeaway after watching? Because to me, it didn’t have anything to do with the time travel or scifi aspects at all.
The main point of the film is summed up with the line “If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?”. It was about free will and the main character’s decision to let things play out knowing her daughter will die at an early age, because if she didn’t have her, she wouldn’t have experienced the life she had with her daughter at all. It’s a philosophical story wrapped in a scifi film.
you'll never really be able to stop scalpers
Sure you can, or at least bring them down to a very tiny fraction. But like we both agree on, ticketmaster earns a lot of money from enabling scalpers, so they let it happen. It’s not that they can’t, they just won’t.
If they applied what I mentioned, scalpers will cease to exist:
- Tickets can only be bought on the ticketmaster site/app.
- Resales can only be done via ticketmaster, therefore no one can resell their tickets on ebay or any other site. You don’t have to force ebay to ban resellers, it just won’t work because they’ll have to sell and transfer the ticket via ticketmaster anyway. They can advertise on ebay all they want, at the end of the day they’ll have to transfer the ticket and get paid (the same price) on ticketmaster.
- Buyer logs on to ticketmaster and buys the resale ticket there, and the ticket with the rotating barcode is transferred to their account. Seller gets paid via their ticketmaster account.
- Tickets can only be sold for the same purchase price or lower (if you want to get rid of it faster), and ticketmaster can’t charge a fee for resales.
Scalpers literally won’t waste their time buying up all the tickets because they can only sell them for the same price. The only way they can do it is to sell to some desperate fan who’s willing to pay more (directly to the scalper outside the app), but they’ll have to figure out how to accompany the buyer through security because they can’t transfer the ticket barcode to the buyer’s phone if they don’t sell through the app. A scalper won’t go through that for every resale.
The only problem with that is ticket transfers on the app won’t be allowed unless it’s a re-sale, so sharing tickets that you bought for your family/friends will no longer be possible and you’ll all have to enter the venue together as a group because all the tickets are on your account/phone only. But that’s a small price to pay to get rid of scalpers.
Like I said, reselling is not the issue, scalping is. People can have many legit reasons for selling their tickets (sick, accident, emergency, etc.), and there should be a way for them to offload those tickets for someone else to enjoy and at the same time get their money back. If tickets aren’t allowed to be sold above their original price, scalpers won’t be able to profit from them, so they’ll stop doing it. Then people who want to sell just to get their money back are able to, while the people who weren’t able to buy during the initial sale period get another chance to buy tickets without getting scalped or scammed. It won’t matter if the ticket you present wasn’t originally yours, as long as you got it for the same price.
It’s a win-win for everyone except ticketmaster who doesn’t get to profit off of the resale market, that’s why they don’t do it. I can’t remember who it was, but there was an artist who demanded resales to be done that way and it worked out well.
Ticketmaster can easily prevent out-of-band reselling by only allowing resales on their site. So anyone selling their tickets on ebay or wherever will still have to transfer the tickets and get paid through ticketmaster, which should only allow you to sell at original purchase price with no extra fees. This would also help prevent scams and fraud because all transactions would be via their system and they already implement that rotating code technology to prevent screenshots from working.
Of course ticketmaster doesn’t do that because they charge a fee on resales, which gets them more money.
As a dude, drinking sweet cocktails instead of beer and not having more than one or two drinks. First of all, I have the asian flush so I get red very easily. Even if I'm not drunk at all, I look like it. So I nurse my drink and sip slowly. I also usually don't have more than 2 in a night. And if I'm gonna nurse a drink, I might as well have something that tastes delicious.